Wednesday, November 28, 2012

David Walters has announced the completion of a major milestone for the Left Opposition Digitization Project for the Marxist Internet Archive:
the complete run of Labor Action, the newspaper of the Workers Party
(U.S.) and Independent Socialist League from 1940 through the Autum of
1958.

Writers for this paper included, among others, Max Shachtman, James
T. Farrell, C.L.R. James, Raya Dunayevskaya, Hal Draper, and Irving
Howe. The 19 years of Labor Action represents approx. 1,000 issues
published, over half of which are full broadsheet in size. Presented in
beautifylly digitaly optimized PDFs, the work was a joint project
between the Riazanov Library Project and the Holt Labor Libary. Walters
says: "We encourage the free and widespread distribution of this
historic archive".